Self-Learning Trainings

Overview

This page provides links to a series of self-learning videos (YouTube and downloadable) to learn how to use Stardust or IPP.
It is recommended to perform the trainings of a single learning unit in the
presented order.

Learning Units

In this unit you learn the "basics": How to configure the environment. In the
second video you learn the setup
of a basic project. Eclipse is a very powerful and complex development
environment, so obviously we cannot give a general introduction to Eclipse,
but you will learn what you need for starting modeling. In the following
video, you learn how to create an easy process model in the Business Process
Management Notation.

Learn how to setup a your first IPP project. Note: With recent releases you no
longer choose facets manually when installing a Dynamic Web Project (as
shown in the video), but select "Infinity Portal" in the combo box
"Configuration".

Modeling is an important and in most cases the first part in the BPM
lifecycle. Therefore the second unit starts with a bit more complex modeling
after the first example in the preceding unit. A scenario to be found in
most organizations is a helpdesk. While components of a business process
- likeroles and various organizations - can
be demonstrated, the process model is not overly complex.

Finally we show you the simulation functionality of IPP in two videos.

Process simulation allows a process model to be tested for performance
characteristics without actually deploying the process. Each simulation run is a
hypothetical (what-if) test that varies parameters such as work volume, worker
availability, etc. to provide a performance summary of the process design under
those conditions. Some parameters are set to fixed values. Other parameters are
allowed to change within a range of possible values just as they would in real
life. In effect, the simulation run shrinks the scale of real time (weeks,
months, years etc.) to just a few seconds, minutes or hours to predict long term
process behavior without the time and cost of actual deployment and observation.

Most videos are about the IPP portal
functionality, which is offered in a unified portal with several
perspectives. It replaces the several portals which where used until version 5.

The End User Portal is what the seen by the this type of user, it is the
interface to the solution. It is highly configurable, which is one of the
strengths of IPP. The exact view depends on the process models and on the role
of the user. It can be configured to adhere to style guidelines of a company.
Nevertheless, the look & feel on a little more abstract level and usage patterns
stay the same. Therefore the videos are useful also for end users that
work with a solution build with the IPP portal.

The video presents a model configured to support departments, shows
how to create departments and assign users to them and presents a
processing scenario, where work items are assigned to participants based
on process data.

Infinity Process Platform offers an advanced Scan Client that can access
several professional scanning devices. This Scan Client is .NET based an hence cannot be published via Eclipse but is available under the Infinity Process Platform maintenance model.